14 – Future High School
“Hey, Yuseon Kang. The homeroom teacher has been in your office for a long time.”
“Okay”
Close the workbook you were solving and go to the teacher’s office.
Why? Well, the homeroom teacher never calls me.
When I went into the teacher’s room, Jin-a was there too. A little awkward.
“You know that it’s not long before your high school entrance exam? Are you preparing well..?”
“Yes?”
Already…? No, as far as I know, I know that there is a lot of exam period left..?
A month, two weeks left?
So I tried to prepare one by one after the midterm exams, but now the midterm exams haven’t even started, so… They’re already preparing for the exams…?
“Sir, has the schedule changed by any chance?”
“No, what the hell are you talking about…? Didn’t it appear in the pamphlet…? How will you live from now on with such a mind?”
It didn’t seem like the schedule had changed.
Uh… Now that you say that, the homeroom teacher is not wrong. Yes, in a way, it is a test that may determine the direction of my life.
It felt very short when I thought that the test period was only a month and fifteen days away.
“Left and right teachers never imagined that you would go to such a good high school.”
“…?”
Meister High School… Is it to the point where you hear this…? Wasn’t it just a place where you could go if you had an upper-middle grade..?
…But, actually, my grades were terrible until the first semester started. If you think about grades at that time, I think I went to a sh*thole high school somewhere in the countryside.
Why? A place where two people go in and three people come out, and a teacher and a student smoke cross-cigarettes.
From the point of view of the homeroom teacher who has watched me so far, that kind of sound is likely to come out.
“I never imagined that I would go to a high school in the future. Don’t worry about tuition or anything like that..! I asked the school administration office in advance and found out everything I needed to know..!
We’ll talk about that later, but for now, let’s just prepare for the entrance exam..!”
The homeroom teacher said that while holding my shoulder with a chin tuck! I didn’t even worry about tuition or anything like that. As far as I know, the state supports everything.
Still, the homeroom teacher called me directly and provided convenience for me.
– Twinkle.
A little… That’s embarrassing. It’s quite burdensome to have middle-aged eyes. Even the homeroom teacher’s hand on my shoulder from earlier is quite heavy.
I feel like I have to say something even though no one told me otherwise…!
“…Then I’ll do my best!!”
“Yeah! That’s it! Good attitude!!! If I keep working hard with that mindset in the future…!
I’ll be able to get good grades in high school in the future…! This is the first time I’ve ever had anything like this in my teaching career.
I thought I would send two students to Mirae High School, the most prestigious private school in our country.”
“…Um.?”
Is Mirae Meister High School really that good? There is no such thing as a prestigious private school.
In the first place, it’s only been 3 or 4 years since I made it, so what can I say that it’s prestigious?
“Teacher”
“Yeah Yoo Seon-ah…!”
“You’re talking about Future Meister High School, right?”
Just then, the homeroom teacher’s gaze, which had been looking at me with sparkling eyes until just now, became strange, and I sat back down without saying anything.
Then he pounded the computer… And opened a new window on the monitor.
“Didn’t Yoo Seon write that he will go to a high school in the future…? It says like this here?”
And showed me the list of hopes for entering high school.
In there, next to Kang Yoo-seon’s name, Mirae High School was written as the first choice…
“No, I definitely wrote ‘Meister’ high school in the future…?”
“…? Yoo Seon-ah, you should have checked and wrote it down well. You wrote it as a future high school, so of course I thought you were referring to that future high school…”
“No no. That, I must have added ‘Meister’.
That… Jina, you saw that I wrote “Future Meister High School”
“I didn’t see it…?”
“Uh…? Uh uh… I can’t be that way… Teacher, could you check the list you wrote in your essay right now?”
“No”
“Isn’t that supposed to be kept?”
“Ah- I accidentally spilled it while drinking coffee. I rewrote it with a computer. The original… Has long since been lost.”
“That, that…”
“Yuseon Kang”
“…”
The homeroom teacher shuts his mouth and looks at me.
-If I say more here, you ask the teacher what kind of habit you are talking about. You now i made a mistake You want to drive it like that.
Hey, are you kidding me?
I thought that would come out…
“I’m sorry, sir. I should have checked better…”
This is for real. Something is wrong.
As soon as he apologized, the homeroom teacher’s face quickly relaxed.
” There is a future high school, and there is also a future meister high school… So don’t worry too much. That, all you have to do is write the application form and send it again… Wait a moment.
… Oops, the deadline for submitting your application has already passed.”
“…Uh…? Uh uh…”
Feels like all the blood in your head is drying up.
No, I don’t even know where the future high school is, but I’m going to take the entrance exam there right away, and I’ll be able to attend there in the future…?
“Don’t worry too much. First of all… There is an additional recruitment period, and Meister High School is new. The kids don’t want to apply.
Usually, if you go to a high school this far away, it’s usually after discussing it with your parents. And parents don’t… Like it that much… When their children go to an unknown high school. Therefore…”
And the homeroom teacher secretly looks at me. This is, so uh… I can feel that you are looking at me with very sorry eyes, so it’s like talking to it.
Yeah, well… First of all… They didn’t send me here because they didn’t like me.
Yes, and there is an additional application period, and they say that if there are more TOs left than the kids, additional recruitment notices are issued several times.
There are many opportunities left.
“And if you can take the test once, it’s not too bad to take it. Taking the test is free anyway. As far as I know, Meister High School also takes an entrance exam when entering.
It’s not bad to take a test to prepare for that time. There’s a big difference between taking this test once or twice.”
Listening to the homeroom teacher’s words, it seems to be saying something that makes sense to some extent. Okay. I don’t think it’s bad to give it a try.
“Heh heh- This is the first time I’ve experienced anything like this while teaching… I’m very embarrassed. First of all..! Yoo Seon-i…!
Don’t worry too much. Also, there are high schools that I put in as my 2nd or 3rd choice other than the future meister high school. All of the high schools here have applied well.
You won’t end up in a high school you don’t want.”
“Yes… I understand”
2)
Future High School.
I came back to class and brought a booklet related to the future high school and read it.
I don’t intend to go here for now, but I have to go at least once to take the exam. If you’re going to go to school, you have to know at least what kind of school it is.
I open the booklet and read it…
– Small group customized lessons. Various physical activities. Different curriculums, etc.
This, the more I read the booklet… My hair turned white.
That… That there is a high school like this in Korea…?
The school playground has a grassy field, a swimming pool, a basketball court, tennis court, badminton court, etc… Even the physical education facilities were terrifying.
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Just looking at that area, it was hard to say that it was at the level of an ordinary high school. It’s bigger than most universities.
The school uniforms are not ordinary school uniforms, but custom-made by a famous German brand. Meals are prepared by former hotel chefs.
The tuition is also extremely expensive..?!
No, really. The more I keep learning each and every information related to the future high school, the more I think about it, it’s not a place where I can enter just because I want to go.
Just because you put in an application form, you say you can take the exam right away…?
As far as I know, high schools that look great like this start from the first year of middle school to the third year of middle school. And what… I won an award in some kind of contest.
Doesn’t this and that stuff have to be filled up to get in…?
Yes. I put in a lot of effort when I was in middle school. So I raised my grades a lot.
Are you an outstanding student enough to enter here?! If you do, that’s not it either.
If the homeroom teacher had an idea, would I put the application form here according to common sense? When you think about it, this is not the case…
That. When you filled out the application form and sent it to your future high school, didn’t you ever think, “Isn’t this wrong…?” It’s ridiculous. Really dumbfounded
Again- I sent an application form- The school that called me to take the test is also strange. I know this is usually the first round of document interviews. That I passed there. Its real
It’s strange and makes no sense.
Wow- I don’t know. This is really out of common sense I know… I’m not sure what to do.
My head hurts.
Pick up… And to take the exam, I have to go to this school, but it’s in Gangwon-do. How can I get a train ticket to Gangwon-do? Again- I have to get off at the station and move around by car.
Does the director have enough time to take me to a place like this..? No, even if I go here, what can I do…?
To take a test, do I have to go this far…?
I’m sure the test will be extremely complicated at a place like that, but can I solve it…?
And again- the director has to keep waiting for me while taking the exam…?
I’m not going there anyway, so why do I need to go there and take the test? Can’t we just not go…? I’d rather sit in the library and study on the way to and from here.
I said that to my homeroom teacher… Yes, from common sense I think this is the most appropriate.
“…Yoo Seon-ah. Are you taking the exam at the same high school as me..?”
Jinah spoke naturally. … Come to think of it, even though she was Jin, she was in her office with me.
“Huh..? Uh- right..?”
“It must be difficult to get there because there is no car. Let’s go with me.”
“Oh, yes. I’ve been thinking about that problem.
Anyway, getting a car ride to Gangwon-do is a hassle, and I’m sure I won’t know any of the tests that come out of this school anyway.
Also… I have no intention of going to this school anyway. Do I really need to invest a day and a day to take the entrance exam? I think so.
I think it would be better to prepare for the entrance exam at another school at that time…”
“It’s not very difficult…! They say it’s easy, so I’d like Yoo Seon to do it?”
“Huh..?”
“What?
“Uh uh…”
“…I think it would be boring if I go alone. Can’t I go with you..?”
Looking at those brown eyes staring at me really hard, I was… Speechless. So… The feeling of something like a very heavy rock pressing down on my body…?
I was pressed by the momentum. I can’t say anything. I just feel like I have to do as I am told…
I’m sure I won’t be able to do anything if I go.
It’s just a waste of time.
“If you say that much… I’ll have to go…”
“Wow- that’s great..! Then um… I have to leave early that day. Around 6:00 the playground we used to play every day. Yes… I’ll be waiting in front of the playground..!”